Mayor Katjana Ballantyne’s proposed Fiscal Year 2025 budget plan puts schools and worker equity front and center and delivers strong supports for core services, social progress, and the most vulnerable. From reading and math interventionists and embedded counselors for the schools to resources for alternative response, homelessness, affordable housing, seniors, and a shift to rodenticide-free rodent control, the carefully crafted $360M budget makes strategic strides on community priorities amid a tighter funding year.

Beginning on Monday, June 3, or soon after, people walking, wheeling, or cycling on the Community Path between Lowell St. and Central St. will be detoured around the new Somerville Junction Park site. 

This temporary detour (approximately one week, weather permitting) will enable City contractors to pave the newly built path and loam/seed green space along the northern half of the park. Following paving, the new path will be opened to the public and work at the site will transition to the southern half of the park where the temporary community path currently sits. 

Mayor Katjana Ballantyne and the Somerville Office of Health and Human Services invite all community members to honor LGBTQ+ Pride Month by joining the annual Pride flag raising ceremony on Tuesday, June 4. The ceremony will begin at 5:30 p.m. on the City Hall Concourse and include remarks from Mayor Ballantyne, City of Somerville LGBTQ+ Liaison Izzy Starr, and representatives from the Somerville youth LQBTQ+ community. 

Beginning on Monday, June 17 or soon after, the segment of Central Street between Summer Street and Highland Avenue will become a permanently one-way northbound (travel from Summer St. north toward Highland Ave.) street for vehicle traffic.  

This change will facilitate the implementation of a new design and construction of streetscape improvements on Central Street (Summer St. to Highland Ave.).  

Over the summer and fall, construction crews will be working to: 

Mayor Katjana Ballantyne and the Somerville Office of Strategic Planning and Community Development (OSPCD), in partnership with 717-719 Washington St, LLC, are pleased to announce an income-restricted rental opportunity of two (2) 2-bedroom apartments.

Located at 205 Beacon St in the Cobble Hill neighborhood, these apartments will be available to income-eligible households with a combined annual gross income at or below 50% of the Area Median Income (AMI) and 80% of the Area Median Income (AMI).  
 

Mayor Katjana Ballantyne, Somerville’s SomerViva Office of Immigrant Affairs, and the Somerville Worker Center, in partnership with the Brazilian Worker Center and the Brazilian Women’s Group, are announcing a free immigrant workers’ rights fair on Saturday, June 8, 2024, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Somerville Worker Center located at 530 Mystic Ave, Suite 111. 

The fair will feature two workers’ rights presentations, one at 11:30 a.m. in Spanish and one at 1:30 p.m. in Portuguese.

The Somerville Police Department is thoroughly trained and committed to protecting both public safety and freedom of speech at protests for both protestors and bystanders and does so with full neutrality and a commitment to de-escalation.